Car-fender.



I. PASCAL.

CAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE n, 1918.

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ISRAEL PASCAL, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGNOR 0F THIRTY-ONE EIGHTIETHS TO DAVID GORDON AND ONE-FOURTH T0 JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, BOTH OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA. I

CAB-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1912.

Application filed June 17, 1918. Serial No. 240,419.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISRAEL PASCAL, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and'resident of 1210 St, Urbain street, in the city and district of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in car fenders, as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel support, release and general construction of the fender, whereby it may be operated instantaneously and readily returned to its place.

The objects of the invention are to save life and property particularly in the streets of a city, where the trafii is heavy and the passage of the railway cars impeded by many obstructions, to simplify the operation of fending devices, to leave the car attendant free to put on the brakes and shut off power and generally to provide a fender of comparatively cheap construction as Well as efli cient and durable.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the front portion of a car showing the fender.

Fig. 2 is a front view of car and fender.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of fender and portion of the car showing the bearings for the supporting bars.

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings, the angular rod frame 1 is shown as supported from the loops 2, the lower section 3 extending forwardly below the level of the car vestibule frame 4 and above the level of the ground and rails. This frame is filled in by a net 5, much similar to the style of fender commonly used in the past.

This part of the device will act in some cases without the additional safety means employed in this invention and it is to avoid the misses that the present novel construction has been conceived.

The bearing box 6 is supported on the distance from the front and in this box the blocks 7 are slidably arranged.

The central bar 8 projects from a block 7 and extends through and engages the spring latch 9 rigidly secured to the base of the vestibule 4 and projecting downwardly therefrom.

The bar 8 continues forwardly through the front rod of the frame 1 and slightly in advance of said front rod is secured to the push rail 10.

The side bars 11 and 12 also extend from the blocks 7 and are'rigidly secured to the push rail 10, one at each side of the central bar 8 toward the ends of said rail 10.

The guard plate or grid 13 is slidably mounted in vertical bearings at the front end of the vestibule in a corresponding slot in the base thereof and normally rests on the latch 9, said plate 13 having the vertical slots 14 for the passage of the bars 11 and 12. and the notches 15 for the rails.

The guard plate l3 is lifted to the latch by the member 16 after it has been lowered.

in the operation of this invention the push rail 10 is the starting member, and as soon as it comes into contact with an obstruction on the track the bars 8, 11 and 12are moved rearwardly and as the bar 8 is secured to the latch 9, said latch 9 is moved from engagement with the guard plate 13, the consequence of which is, that the said guard plate 13 falls by gravity 'down to its lowermost position in proximity with or directly on the roadway and positively prevents the passage of the obstruction under the car.

The said guard plate is formed with or without side flanges extending rearwardly, and generally it may be said that the shape of said plate is conformable with the conditions under which it is employed.

The guard plate 13 in dropping operates a pinion or pinions 17 by the rack or racks 16 and said pinions coact with the gear or gears 18, the latter being rigid with the reel or reels 19.

The cable or cables 20 wind on the reels 19 and at their other ends are operatively connected to the brakes 21 by means of the cranks 22, so that when the plate 13 falls the emergency brakes 21 are applied and assist in stopping the progress of the car.

Various changes may be made in the con struction of the several parts without departing from the spirit of the invention, so long as they are within the scope of the claims for novelty following.

What I claim is:

1. In a car fender, a vertically slidable member, a latch spring-held from the car and normally supporting a guard member, a central bar supported by suitable bearings before and behind said latch and engaging the same intermediate of the length, and a push rail secured to said bar.

2. In a car fender, a vertically slidable guard plate, a spring latch supported from the car, a bar having a bearing at its rear end under the car body and engaging said latch intermediate of its length, side bars having similar bearings, and a push rail rigidly secured to said bars and supported thereby slightly above the ground.

3. In a car fender, a vertically slidable guard plate, a spring latch supported from the front of the car, an angle frame sus pended in front of the car, a plurality of bars supported in bearings from the car at their-rear ends and extending through the front rod of said angle frame, one of said bars engaging said latch between its front and rear bearings, and a push rail rigidly secured to said bars at their front extremities and normally held to its forward position in advance of the angle frame by the engagement of one of said bars with said spring catch.

4,. In a car fender, a vertically slidable plate suitably mounted at the front of the car and having vertical slots and adapted to drop by its own weight, bearing blocks supported under the car body intermediate of the length thereof, bars secured to said blocks and extending forwardly, a spring latch engaged by one of said bars and holding said bar normally to its forward position, an angle frame supporting said bars at the front ends, and a push rail supported in advance of said angle frame and rigidly secured to said bars and adapted on pressure to release said latch from engagement with said plate.

5. A car fender, comprising a spring plate secured to the car frame at the front end andflh'aving a step secured thereto forming a catph or latch, a longitudinal bar secured intermediate of its length to said spring plate and at its ends to a push rail and to a bearing block respectively, a push rail supported in front of said car by said bar, a plurality of side bars similarly supporting said push rail and having bearing blocks at their rear ends, bearings for said blocks supported from the under side of the car body, a fender member having angle side rails, bottom, and top rails and a basket center, said bottom rail supporting the aforesaid bars, a guard plate slidably arranged behind said basket fender, an emergency brake, and means secured to the said plate for operating said emergency brake.

Signed at the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this 7th day of June, 1918.

. ISRAEL PASCAL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

